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Thread #91175   Message #1732768
Posted By: Flash Company
03-May-06 - 07:43 AM
Thread Name: The Genre of Funny English Songs
Subject: RE: The Genre of Funny English Songs
One which I used to do in my singing days was 'The Ballad of the Outboard-motor Man'. It was written, as I recall , by a guy called Graham Penny from the Southampton area.
It takes the style of a broadside ballad, and included such gems as:-
'The hull was clinker moulded in stout English fibre-glass'.
It was probably the most frequently requested song I did.

FC